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A persona in this case is simply a role.

Adding a persona to your prompt will give context for the type of response that you are looking for.  

Consider the following prompts

A lot of people will try an AI tool like ChatGPT a few times, not like the results that they get, and never use the tool again.  Don’t be one of those people.

While the tools are designed to be used by “non-techie” people, there is still a learning curve and you won’t get...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

I am always looking for new methods to improve my time management. It is almost to a level of fascination to me when I find a new tip or trick that saves me time—even if it is just a small amount. So when I found Dave Crenshaw’s training videos on LinkedIn, I was hooked!

We are what we consume. We are a construct of the five people closest to us. This seems to be a thread that keeps coming up repeatedly in the books I am reading, the pieces of training I am watching, and the social media I have been consuming.

I finished The Tipping Point today. In the end, Gladwell talks about the “fax effect” and how it has spilled over into much of our digital world today with email, commercials, magazine ads, social media ads, etc. There is power in a large network, but if everyone sees what...

Effective coaches don’t have all the answers or solve their clients’ problems.  They ask the right questions to empower their clients to find the solutions themselves.

The GROW coaching model is a framework for those types of questions.

“GROW” represents the sections -...

I finished Influence the other day and have a lot of insights about it, which I am still digesting. However, today, I read something very powerful in The Tipping Point.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) allow you to track your progress towards your goals.

For businesses this means aligning metrics with your organizational strategy. This information can be used to determine if time, energy, and money are being spent on the right things....